TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Brinckmann, Caren
A1  - Trouvain, Jürgen
T1  - On the role of duration prediction and symbolic representation for the evaluation of synthetic speech
T2  - 4th ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ITRW) on speech synthesis (SSW4), Blair Atholl Palace Hotel, Perthshire, Scotland, August 29 - September 1, 2001.
N2  - In order to determine priorities for the improvement of timing in synthetic speech this study looks at the role of segmental duration prediction and the role of phonological symbolic representation in listeners' preferences. In perception experiments using German speech synthesis, two standard duration models (Klatt rules and CART) were tested. The input to these models consisted of symbolic strings which were either derived from a database or a text-to-speech system. Results of the perception experiments show that different duration models can only be distinguished when the symbolic string is appropriate. Considering the relative importance of the symbolic representation, "post-lexical" segmental rules were investigated with the outcome that listeners differ in their preferences regarding the degree of segmental reduction. As a conclusion, before fine-tuning the duration prediction, it is important to calculate an appropriate phonological symbolic representation in order to improve timing in synthetic speech.
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Automatische Sprachproduktion
KW  - Lautquantität
Y1  - 2001
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-68610
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-68610
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
S1  - 6
PB  - ISCA
CY  - Baixas
ER  -